Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian states ranking by overweight people


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The result was keep per WP:HEY as Obesity in India. Bearian (talk) 20:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Indian states ranking by overweight people

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WP:NOT. You help me decide if I'm right. h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 17:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Encyclopedicity is borderline, if you ask me, but I wouldn't mind a full article Obesity in India (or any other country where it's a significant problem). --Dhartung | Talk 17:49, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I go with Dhartung that a real article wouldn't hurt. There is just too little here to make it encyclopedic. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 17:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I looked through Category:Obesity, and couldn't find anything relating to obesity by country except for a single article - Obesity in the United States. If we have articles on LGBT rights by country, then obesity by country could be a perfectly valid topic for a range of articles.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 17:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I should clarify that my idea has a basis in dietary and health care differences that are likely to be substantial at a country level. There actually is a good deal of at least popular literature around the idea that places like Italy, France and Japan have better diets and less obesity than the US, for instance. --Dhartung | Talk 20:32, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep we have lots of almanac-y type lists ranking various countries, states, whatnot by various factors; this is sourced, health (and hence obesity) is encyclopedic, so this is ok by WP:LIST. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:26, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep First of all, I have to reiterate the points Carlossuarez46 made. Second, I am making these article linked to an other article which also I have been making titled Indian states rankings. It makes more sense when it is linked to that article.128.231.88.4 (talk) 20:35, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's just a list that is not actually well sourced. If an article could be written that identifies trends and rates of complications (diabetes very common in India) I might defend its inclusion. JFW | T@lk  00:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * From your rationale it appears that you have completely skipped over the Further Reading section of the article, as well as the two stub tags. Uncle G (talk) 01:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. It would be wrong to delete the article based on a hastiliy made opinion of JFW. He is absolutely wrong to say that the article is not well sourced.. He needs to visit this website http://nfhsindia.org/nfhs3_national_report.html and click NFHS-3 fact sheets and verify all the informations by each state. Secondly, I agree that diabetes is a major problem in India. But it would be wrong to say that you cant make an article about obesity just because diabetes is the problem. Thirdly, I would like to reiterate the point again which is that "this statistics about obesity" is a part of a major article I am writing Indian states rankings and in a larger context, it all makes absolute sense. Finally, information is an information, whether it is about diabetes or obesity.Fair and Honest_India 00:41, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I actually think it's a valid stub now thanks to the help of Dhartung and others. Nom withdrawn.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 01:17, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for everyone who participated int his discussion. I guess I can remove "deleteion" tag from the article now. I will be very happy if somebody explains some of the terms used here, for example, AFD and nom withdrawn. Fair and Honest_India 02:49, 20 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vcpkumar (talk • contribs)
 * AFD means an articles for deletion debate, which is what this is. Nom withdrawn means that I'm withdrawing my nomination for deletion, meaning that I want the article to be kept. If you're new try reading WP:WELCOME, Help:Contents/Getting started and learn more.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 04:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


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